GitHub released a new version of the Copilot desktop app on June 2, 2026, a day after a new usage-based billing structure drastically increased costs for some developers, prompting some to consider leaving the platform. New features aim to give developers flexibility, control, and limiting context switching, with agents accessing context from existing issues, pull requests, and repos. GitHub described the pricing shift as a sustainable way to deal with the higher compute and inference demands of agentic AI. Analysts noted that agentic AI has strained GitHub's compute infrastructure, with Omdia principal analyst Torsten Volk stating, “Their architecture buckles under the current AI agent-induced load it was never built for.” In the first half of 2026, GitHub suffered a series of incidents raising reliability concerns. A GitHub blog from April apologized for availability incidents, with CTO Vlad Fedorov writing, "By February 2026, it was clear that we needed to design for a future that requires 30X today’s scale." Amid scaling rapidly and migrating to Azure, GitHub logged hundreds of incidents and leadership issued a public apology for downtime. AWS and GitHub spokespeople would neither confirm nor deny a report that GitHub will use AWS cloud infrastructure to handle the increased load.